neonbluebell:

thepeacockangel:

I don’t understand why people demand unquestioning obedience from kids 

A: Understanding why means they can extrapolate and anticipate how other shit works.

B: Teaching them authority is infallible is a great way to make sure they never solve a problem creatively or make anything better.

C: It teaches them to see you as perfect and omnipotent which is a high tower to fall off of.  Why are you so scared to say you don’t know?  I’m really looking forward to having relationships with my children as a complex and fallible human being who loves the hell out of them and would do anything for them, but still fundamentally a human being with wants and needs and drives beyond parenting.

As a kid who’s parents, for all their flaws, did this and generally did well… Pre-emptive heads up; if you don’t homeschool, you’re going to have hell. When teachers are just flawed adults with their own motivations, a kid will call them on it in an instant, and the power dynamics are not stacked in a kid’s favour. Though, I think you said you homeschooled? So you might be good, if that’s your plan. Heh.

I’m figuring homeschooling or leftist collective schooling… or I take them to organizer trainings from birth and have them unionizing their grade school against petty tyrannies